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Examples of sliver in a Sentence
Noun
I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger.
Verb
carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry
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Melissa Santos, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
Media access is meticulously controlled, leaving only slivers of time to photograph practice or conduct interviews.
—Monty Davis, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed last month that slivered onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers were the probable source of an E. coli outbreak that prompted the fast-food restaurant chain to stop selling the menu item temporarily.
—Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Reality check: Data center jobs still make up a sliver of U.S. employment overall.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
Media access is meticulously controlled, leaving only slivers of time to photograph practice or conduct interviews.
—Monty Davis, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
Preliminary data implicates slivered onions used on Quarter Pounders as a possible source, and recent testing rules out beef patties, according to the company.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed last month that slivered onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers were the probable source of an E. coli outbreak that prompted the fast-food restaurant chain to stop selling the menu item temporarily.
—Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Sliver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sliver. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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